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		<h2 style="text-align: center; color: white;">avast!</h2>

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			<h2>4. Advanced</h2>

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			This section explains the avast! settings.

			
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			<br><br><font class="sectionheader">Scan Settings</font>
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			avast! has many settings to customize scans.
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				<b>Figure 4.1:</b> Click <b>Settings...</b>.<br>
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					<font class="subsectionheader">Scan</font><br>
					This section is used when creating your own custom scan.<br>
						<div class="note">Note: You cannot change any <b>Scan Parameters</b> for scans provided by avast!.</div>
					
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						<li><font class="subsectionheader">Scan</font><br>
						Fields to name and describe the scan.
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						<li><font class="subsectionheader">Scan Areas</font><br>
						List of locations avast! will scan.
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						<li><font class="subsectionheader">File Types</font><br>
						Radio buttons to tell avast! how to identify files.
							<div class="note">Note: Thorough scan options are recommended.</div>
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					<font class="subsectionheader">Sensitivity</font><br>
					Sets how thorough the scan is.<br>
					
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						<li><font class="subsectionheader">Heuristics Sensitivity</font><br>
						<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic_analysis" target="new">Heuristics</a> determine how sensitive avast! is to possible infections.
							<div class="note">Note: Higher sensitivity increases the chance of a 
								<a href="http://service1.symantec.com/sarc/sarc.nsf/info/html/what.false.positive.html" target="new">false positive</a>.
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						<li><font class="subsectionheader">Sensitivity</font><br>
						Scans entire files, not just areas likely to contain a virus.
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						<li><font class="subsectionheader">PUP and Suspicious Files</font><br>
						Scans for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware" target="new">malware</a> during virus scans.
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						<li><font class="subsectionheader">Links</font><br>
						Scans <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link" target="new">filesystem link</a> targets.
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					<font class="subsectionheader">Packers</font><br>
					Sets what compressed files to scan.
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					<font class="subsectionheader">Actions</font><br>
					Sets what avast! will do when an infection is found.
					
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						<li><font class="subsectionheader">Automatically apply actions during scan</font><br>
						Sets what avast! will do during a scan if a <b>Virus</b>, <b>PUP</b>, or <b>Suspicious</b> item is found. The choices are covered in <a href="basics.html#3">What to do When You Find a Virus</a>.
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						<li><font class="subsectionheader">Processing of infected archives</font><br>
						Sets what avast! will do with infected archives.
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					<font class="subsectionheader">Performance</font><br>
					Sets how fast avast! will run.
					
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						<li><font class="subsectionheader">Priority</font><br>
						Sets avast! <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheduling_(computing)" target="new">priority for system resources</a>.
							<div class="note">Note: Higher settings will cause your computer to run slower during scans.</div>
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						<li><font class="subsectionheader">Persistent Cache</font><br>
						Speeds up scans by skipping known clean files.
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					<font class="subsectionheader">Report File</font><br>
					Creates a report file with scan results.
					
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						<li><font class="subsectionheader">Reported Items</font><br>
						Sets what files are added to the report.
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					<font class="subsectionheader">Exclusions</font><br>
					Creates a list of locations not to scan.
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					<font class="subsectionheader">Scheduling</font><br>
					Sets a schedule of when to scan.
						
						
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						<li><font class="subsectionheader">Scan Scheduler</font><br>
						Sets how frequently to scan.
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						<li><font class="subsectionheader">Schedule</font><br>
						Sets when to scan.
							<div class="note">Note: This section will change based on <b>Schedule Type</b> under <b>Scan Scheduler</b>.</div>
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			<div class="shadowbox"><center>For more information on scan settings use the <b>avast! 7 Help</b> (Figure 4.2).</center></div>
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